What does a lifestyle guru do when her life starts to fall apart? Alia Dubey is being stalked. The problem is no one believes her. Not the cops, not her family…and well, she doesn’t really have any friends. Until the day her sister calls in a favour and asks her friend from the Intelligence Bureau to check on Alia and the gifts she’s been receiving. Officer Avinash Rathore has better things to do than babysit a spoilt socialite with delusions of danger. Until he walks in to find her home broken into and an innocuous bouquet of red roses placed there. While everything points to an obsessed lover, Avinash’s instincts are screaming that there is more at play. The gifts keep arriving, escalating from roses to far more sinister things…each with an intimate note hinting at a personal agenda. But whose? The police have a primary suspect – Alia herself. They’re convinced she’s mentally ill and the one planting the evidence that points to a stalker. But Avinash knows there is more. Far f...

A scandal-averse Maharaja. A free-spirited actress. What do you get when you throw them together and add a fake engagement to the mix?  Either a match made-in-heaven or a royal disaster... Nivy Sharma knows exactly what she needs - the freedom to be herself and follow her passion. Guess what she doesn’t need? A tailor-made husband. When her meddlesome mother tries to throw her into the arms of a mom-approved suitor, Nivy runs the other way.  Right into the arms of the man who shattered her heart. His Highness Veerendra Singh can recognise a pain-in-the-ass when he sees it. Especially when it falls into his arms. Even if said pain-in-the-ass has legs that go on forever and lush lips that just beg to be kissed, Veer vows to run the other way. As he did once before... But, when the marriage-minded princess of Tejpur sets her sights on him, Veer runs back into Nivy’s arms to propose a fake engagement. When 'fake' starts to feel very real, Nivy and Veer have to decide what is impo...

Review: Of Curses and Kisses - Sandhya Menon - February 2020 One of my favorite things that I love to read is renditions of classics and fairytales and so when I saw Of Curses and Kisses and how it was a modern take on Beauty and the Beast, I just had to give it a go. This book also ticks the box of diversity in YA fiction as the main characters are Indian and British and are written by an AOC. Jaya's family is Indian Royalty - the Raos and Grey's family is British Royalty - the Emersons. Years ago when Britain invaded India, the Emersons stole a ruby from the Raos and the Raos cursed the Emersons and that one day their line would end when the last heir turned 18. Grey this year will be turning 18.  The Raos and the Emersons are like the Hatfields and the McCoys. After Jaya's sister was humiliated and the evidence pointed towards the Emersons, Jaya concocts a plan to hurt Grey by getting him to fall in love with her, and then she will break his heart and...